What evidence do you have? Fossil records have gaps. No direct evidence exists. No one was around during the Creation so do you think that humans should know by some instilled thoughts of how we got here? We don't and we can only guess but you seem to forget we are only guessing. God gave us the Bible and told us how the universe got here because of the very problem I just mentioned. It gives evidence when no one would be around to provide evidence. You believe your history books and all your science books written by people anywhere from 50 to 2000 years ago so what is the big problem with believing something in the Bible? You may think we exist because of the very fact that the universe is perfectly set but how do you know that your cause/effect is not backwards and that the universe is the way it is *for* us instead of us existing *because of* the universe? Don't be afraid to think outside the box just because you may end up agreeing with people you don't like. If you want to apply logic to the situation then tell us how some complex life forms have existed similar simpler forms (the reverse of evolution) if evolution is supposed to go from simple to complex?
Who said the universe was "created"? Time is part of the universe, so there is no meaning to the phrase "before" the universe. Creation implies that there is a time "before" the universe, so it could not have been created (Unless time is not part of the universe, but then you can define the "universe" to be a larger thing that does include time). Also, the observable law of conservation of mass and energy suggests that there was no point in time with a different amount of mass/energy thus strongly suggesting there was never a "creation".
You are thinking too much like a human but it isn't your fault. Realize that there are some things in this world we will never understand because our brains do not have the capability to think "outside the box". Einstein got us closer but we still have very far to go and thinking about what might have existed before the universe just makes a human's brain melt because we just can't think like that. Because of that you can't just discount something you don't understand for something you do understand. If we always did that Einstein wouldn't be so famous now would he? You can't fall back on laws of science to prove your theory because many things may not have been "true" during the time the universe was created. Laws could have been broken, they could very well have been *set* once the universe was created. We *don't* know so don't presume to think that we do.
On the other hand we have the theory of evolution thought up by a group of scientists who were not alive when the "primordial soup" was brewing, therefore have no direct evidence, but act like they are never wrong and don't have any other way of explaining how we got here and make up something that sounds good but can't quite find enough evidence to prove the theory indefinitely and it is now believed by Democrats and anyone else who is an atheist just because it doesn't involve any religion despite the theory having huge holes. I can't stand when some Bible-bashing liberal nerd states that, because evolution was created by humans (and humans are always right, right??), then any other cockamamie story his mother told him is just as likely to be false because humans who have to guess at what happened when they weren't alive just *have* to be right despite lack of conclusive evidence. Get over it birdman. You are wrong.
At least with Windows they know what to expect and they have something they paid for that they can blame (rightly or wrongly) for fuckups. Plus, Windows is getting better and better and the average user is getting to be more knowledgeable.
Novell and RedHat can be blamed now and have been in that mode for a long time now (before Novell there was Suse). Linux is gtting better and better too and the avg user is getting to be more knowledgeable. That helps Linux just as much as it helps Windows. So I don't see your "advantages" to Windows being advantages anymore.
I've noticed porn sites are utilizing the.biz TLD. These new ones are just too specialized though, except for.xxx which I think would be very useful in helping people censor sites that they don't want to see.
It depends on how you look at it. I've had TW Roadrunner now for almost 2.5 years. It's $45/mo. and i've only lost service 2 times I believe where it wasn't planned and only 2 other times when it was planned for upgrades. I do not have any download caps (and I've hit over 100 gigs per month a couple times). Their newsgroups are great (binaries only stay for a couple days though but I don't mind that too much). I hardly have to call customer service but when I do it's not perfect but it isn't horrible either. And the download rate is at least 4mb down and 256kb up with I believe a package available to get 6mb down. Overall I'd say the service is good and the fact you can possibly be considered an AOLer isn't too big of a deal for me.
They have very high prices compared to other services (at least for cable modem service) and from what I hear their customer support sucks. I've never had them (I moved away from an area that was served by AT&T Broadband before Comcast took over so I never got to see first hand how good/bad Comcast really is.)
Your post is why DNA obviously couldn't have evolved. Some things just had to be there or not be there for us to exist at the present time. We couldn't just ease into them because things like DNA are needed to reproduce. There are too many gaps in the fossil record to explain things like this so people just gloss over the problem issues and still think evolution actually works on large scales.
In this case you aren't traveling "about your country". You are traveling to another country and then back or for all the border officials know you are coming for the first time and don't plan on leaving w/o being killed. Also, in the Soviet Union it was federal gov't officials doing the checking. There may be checks within states or cities like someone else mentioned where they check your driver's license for getting on the bus but that isn't the federal gov't doing it like it was in the Soviet Union. They don't care where you are going either, yet.
You mean "equal to the estimated number of atoms in the known universe." We humans are so quick to assume we know the exact answer to everything even if we aren't/weren't there to provide evidence(Big Bang anyone?).
Oh so the people who *do* question evolution are uneducated? With that comment I'd say you just put yourself into the uneducated category. Einstein questioned Newton's laws and if he hadn't we wouldn't have Relativity. Is he uneducated? Millions of people question evolution. There is no direct evidence for it (huge gaps in fossil records). We can compute mathematical equations and provide direct, correlating, observational evidence for what relativity predicts (light being bent by gravity during eclipses).
Dell Optiplex machines run very quiet. I can't even tell they are on because of it. The only problem with them is if you get the tower model the damn front USB ports are angled up into the front panel and are impossible to get to if the tower is on the floor.
Google monitors the searches that it receives and Google workers can see the searches go by however, they do not know who is doing the searching but they know in what part of the world it is coming from (probably based on IP). I think I read that in a Wired article a couple years ago.
The sig is meant to be sarcasm and a knock against those who believe Windows is ready for primetime despite it being an OS that requires reboots for application patches/upgrades and it crashes a lot. If that is the criteria by which we measure whether an OS is viable or not then Linux does not meet that criteria, and *that is a good thing in this case*. Next time you want to respond to someone who you think is spreading anti-Linux propaganda make sure you understand what you are reading first.
It's better than the evolution propagranda they like spreading, although that is still shown sometimes. If they can't stop spreading progaganda then don't air the shows at all. And if you want science there is always Discovery *Science* to watch. Discovery doesn't have to restrict itself to only science shows when they have other channels to fulfill that.
No one is a hero unless he/she saves another person's life. The term hero is used waaaay to often nowadays and it turns the real heroes into commodities.
Better and more accurate weapons in theory means we kill fewer people but there may be reasons for why we are more apt to use them (maybe even thinking less people would die) and because we end up using them more we kill more people. By knowing what may happen in the future we do our best to avoid it and end up doing exactly what was needed to make what we thought might happen actually happen (like in the movie Paycheck).
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What evidence do you have? Fossil records have gaps. No direct evidence exists. No one was around during the Creation so do you think that humans should know by some instilled thoughts of how we got here? We don't and we can only guess but you seem to forget we are only guessing. God gave us the Bible and told us how the universe got here because of the very problem I just mentioned. It gives evidence when no one would be around to provide evidence. You believe your history books and all your science books written by people anywhere from 50 to 2000 years ago so what is the big problem with believing something in the Bible? You may think we exist because of the very fact that the universe is perfectly set but how do you know that your cause/effect is not backwards and that the universe is the way it is *for* us instead of us existing *because of* the universe? Don't be afraid to think outside the box just because you may end up agreeing with people you don't like. If you want to apply logic to the situation then tell us how some complex life forms have existed similar simpler forms (the reverse of evolution) if evolution is supposed to go from simple to complex?
Who said the universe was "created"? Time is part of the universe, so there is no meaning to the phrase "before" the universe. Creation implies that there is a time "before" the universe, so it could not have been created (Unless time is not part of the universe, but then you can define the "universe" to be a larger thing that does include time). Also, the observable law of conservation of mass and energy suggests that there was no point in time with a different amount of mass/energy thus strongly suggesting there was never a "creation".
You are thinking too much like a human but it isn't your fault. Realize that there are some things in this world we will never understand because our brains do not have the capability to think "outside the box". Einstein got us closer but we still have very far to go and thinking about what might have existed before the universe just makes a human's brain melt because we just can't think like that. Because of that you can't just discount something you don't understand for something you do understand. If we always did that Einstein wouldn't be so famous now would he? You can't fall back on laws of science to prove your theory because many things may not have been "true" during the time the universe was created. Laws could have been broken, they could very well have been *set* once the universe was created. We *don't* know so don't presume to think that we do.
On the other hand we have the theory of evolution thought up by a group of scientists who were not alive when the "primordial soup" was brewing, therefore have no direct evidence, but act like they are never wrong and don't have any other way of explaining how we got here and make up something that sounds good but can't quite find enough evidence to prove the theory indefinitely and it is now believed by Democrats and anyone else who is an atheist just because it doesn't involve any religion despite the theory having huge holes. I can't stand when some Bible-bashing liberal nerd states that, because evolution was created by humans (and humans are always right, right??), then any other cockamamie story his mother told him is just as likely to be false because humans who have to guess at what happened when they weren't alive just *have* to be right despite lack of conclusive evidence. Get over it birdman. You are wrong.
At least with Windows they know what to expect and they have something they paid for that they can blame (rightly or wrongly) for fuckups. Plus, Windows is getting better and better and the average user is getting to be more knowledgeable.
Novell and RedHat can be blamed now and have been in that mode for a long time now (before Novell there was Suse). Linux is gtting better and better too and the avg user is getting to be more knowledgeable. That helps Linux just as much as it helps Windows. So I don't see your "advantages" to Windows being advantages anymore.
I've noticed porn sites are utilizing the .biz TLD. These new ones are just too specialized though, except for .xxx which I think would be very useful in helping people censor sites that they don't want to see.
It depends on how you look at it. I've had TW Roadrunner now for almost 2.5 years. It's $45/mo. and i've only lost service 2 times I believe where it wasn't planned and only 2 other times when it was planned for upgrades. I do not have any download caps (and I've hit over 100 gigs per month a couple times). Their newsgroups are great (binaries only stay for a couple days though but I don't mind that too much). I hardly have to call customer service but when I do it's not perfect but it isn't horrible either. And the download rate is at least 4mb down and 256kb up with I believe a package available to get 6mb down. Overall I'd say the service is good and the fact you can possibly be considered an AOLer isn't too big of a deal for me.
They have very high prices compared to other services (at least for cable modem service) and from what I hear their customer support sucks. I've never had them (I moved away from an area that was served by AT&T Broadband before Comcast took over so I never got to see first hand how good/bad Comcast really is.)
Your post is why DNA obviously couldn't have evolved. Some things just had to be there or not be there for us to exist at the present time. We couldn't just ease into them because things like DNA are needed to reproduce. There are too many gaps in the fossil record to explain things like this so people just gloss over the problem issues and still think evolution actually works on large scales.
The terrorists incarcerated are not US Citizens and therefore the Bill of Rights does not apply to them.
In this case you aren't traveling "about your country". You are traveling to another country and then back or for all the border officials know you are coming for the first time and don't plan on leaving w/o being killed. Also, in the Soviet Union it was federal gov't officials doing the checking. There may be checks within states or cities like someone else mentioned where they check your driver's license for getting on the bus but that isn't the federal gov't doing it like it was in the Soviet Union. They don't care where you are going either, yet.
If you're an American without a passport, just come back through California, Mexico, and Arizona.
Yes, because these states all share a border with Canada, right?
Maybe you should brush up on your geography too. Mexico isn't a state.
Yay, a national ID system.
You mean "equal to the estimated number of atoms in the known universe." We humans are so quick to assume we know the exact answer to everything even if we aren't/weren't there to provide evidence(Big Bang anyone?).
By the way, if the Itanium has 1.7 billion transistors, (I'll take the poster's word for it) then one has to ask - are they all pulling their weight?
Ask the 24MB of cache that utilize a good chunk of that transistor count.
Oh so the people who *do* question evolution are uneducated? With that comment I'd say you just put yourself into the uneducated category. Einstein questioned Newton's laws and if he hadn't we wouldn't have Relativity. Is he uneducated? Millions of people question evolution. There is no direct evidence for it (huge gaps in fossil records). We can compute mathematical equations and provide direct, correlating, observational evidence for what relativity predicts (light being bent by gravity during eclipses).
She was rented anyway.
Dell Optiplex machines run very quiet. I can't even tell they are on because of it. The only problem with them is if you get the tower model the damn front USB ports are angled up into the front panel and are impossible to get to if the tower is on the floor.
Google monitors the searches that it receives and Google workers can see the searches go by however, they do not know who is doing the searching but they know in what part of the world it is coming from (probably based on IP). I think I read that in a Wired article a couple years ago.
The sig is meant to be sarcasm and a knock against those who believe Windows is ready for primetime despite it being an OS that requires reboots for application patches/upgrades and it crashes a lot. If that is the criteria by which we measure whether an OS is viable or not then Linux does not meet that criteria, and *that is a good thing in this case*. Next time you want to respond to someone who you think is spreading anti-Linux propaganda make sure you understand what you are reading first.
It's better than the evolution propagranda they like spreading, although that is still shown sometimes. If they can't stop spreading progaganda then don't air the shows at all. And if you want science there is always Discovery *Science* to watch. Discovery doesn't have to restrict itself to only science shows when they have other channels to fulfill that.
No one is a hero unless he/she saves another person's life. The term hero is used waaaay to often nowadays and it turns the real heroes into commodities.
I think a lot of slashdotters haven't faced up to the fact that IP makes the tech industry possible.
Of course it does, without IP we'd be stuck with IPX to communicate over the Internet. Now we have IPv6 which will hopefully catch on soon.
Better and more accurate weapons in theory means we kill fewer people but there may be reasons for why we are more apt to use them (maybe even thinking less people would die) and because we end up using them more we kill more people. By knowing what may happen in the future we do our best to avoid it and end up doing exactly what was needed to make what we thought might happen actually happen (like in the movie Paycheck).
Those are daughterboards.
Take a look at this http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/ WinXP/Q_20916214.html story about someone who got screwed but then worked to unscrew himself. Pretty interesting I think especially since even the experts didn't think he could get his data back.